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From Still Bisexual (source)

ramdaughter

“Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”

— Warsan Shire (via wearmoonlight (via thesoundmadeflesh)

fuchsiamae

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

repulsion-gel

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am

allyitis

the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”

fuchsiamae

wHat did I just put my eyes on

schrodingers-rufus

“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone

w3rewolf-th3rewolf

Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

rebel-against-reality

“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates

actuallyapathy

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

asexualzoro

the lottery by shirley jackson

eccentwrit

i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf

idlewildly

Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.

bravinto

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

siderealsandman

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

insanitysbloomings

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

felderwin

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

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Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme

jeaniefranklins

I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.

sanguinarysanguinity

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson

real-faker

Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke

scarlettaagni

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)

ghostloner

Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger

nitrosplicer

The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.

Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.

Also going to recommend For A Breath I Tarry by Roger Zelazny, a commentary on whether AI can become human in a future without humans: http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

cryingalonewithfrankenstein

whoever posted “The Laughing Man” and “A Good Day For Bananafish” is Correct

fluffmugger

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger (I assume you meant Stockton’s The lady or the tiger?)

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Gift of the Magi

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County

Thank You Ma'am

The box social

The Veldt

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Harrison Bergeron

Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

Where are you going and where have you been

The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

The lottery by shirley jackson

The Landlady

The Leader

Ett halvt ark papper.

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

A Sound of Thunder

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream

All Summer in a Day

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

An Ordinary Day with Peanuts

The Star

Lamb to the Slaughter

The laughing man

A perfect day for bananafish

The City (link goes to compendium of short stories)

Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin.

In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom

For A Breath I Tarry

the-prince-of-tides

All of Flannery O'Connor’s shorts.

thecaffeinebookwarrior-deactiva

I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.

tophatandboots

Breakfast by James Herbert. Found it in a compilation of some kind in my English classroom aged 15. Utterly unsettled to this day when I remember it

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy

fuckyeahpoetryslam

“If I had a nickel for every time I stayed up too late for someone who would never wake up for me… a penny for every time I had to bend and stretch to prove to someone that I am here, that I exist, my heart would rattle and shake with all of the coins spilling back into it.”

— Melissa Lozado-Olivia, If I Got Paid For All My Emotional Labor (via read-me-to-wonderland)

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“Realize that humor leaves little room for questions, and even less room for victims, and even less room for apologies.” - Emi Mahmoud

Take the Best of Button with you on the go!

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From Olivia Gatwood’s evocative book, NEW AMERICAN BEST FRIEND.

guillotinedaydreams

— pride; bisexual

bigneonglitter

Happy Pride Month, everyone! Remember:

-“Bisexual” does not mean “exclusively attracted to cis men and cis women,” rather it means attracted to more than one gender.

-Bisexuals in relationships with someone of a different gender are just as valid and queer as anyone else.

Lastly,

-BISEXUALS ARE A LOUD PROUD AND REAL PORTION OF THE LGBTQ+ ALPHABET SOUP UMBRELLA AND BIPHOBIA IS GROSS.

Thank you.

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• to everyone, really •

yourcollegegirlfriend

“If you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert words like ‘anger,’ ‘ambition,’ ‘loudness,’ ‘stubbornness,’ ‘coldness,’ ‘ruthlessness.’”

—Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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Affirmation

to youth living in prison after Assata Shakur Speak this to yourself until you know it is true. I believe that I woke up today and my lungs were working, miraculously, my voice can sing and murmur and ask, miraculously. My hands may shake, but they can hold me, or another. My blood still carries the gifts of the air from my heart to my brain, miraculously. Put a finger to my wrist or my temple And feel it: I am magic. Life and all its good and bad and ugly things scary things which I would like to forget beautiful things which I would like to remember – the whole messy lovely true story of myself pulses within me. I believe that the sun shines if not here, then somewhere. Somewhere it rains, and things will grow green and wonderful. Somewhere inside me, too, it rains, and things will grow green and wonderful. Sometimes my insides rain from the inside out. And then I know I am alive I am alive I am alive

Eve L. Ewing (via http://www.liberationlib.com/affirmation-poem.html)

spacecelery0000-blog

Sadly, girls’ trauma is more likely to be missed than that of boys. In children younger than about 11, boys tend to act out and behave badly if they are unhappy - so their trauma is noticed and (hopefully) addressed.Girls tend to react by becoming “people pleasers”. It’s as if they see trauma as a punishment, and hope that they can avoid it by being “good”. They will talk less, work harder, always be springing up ready to help anyone with anything at the slightest indication they may want it. They watch the emotional states of adults like a hawk and soothe, placate and offer practical help at the slightest sign of anger or displeasure. As this is the kind of behavior encouraged in girls, no one takes any notice until it’s too late.

Tool of the Matriarchy (via sonnywortzik)

flyingpurplepizzaeater

You don’t have to be grateful that it isn’t worse.

voidbat

read that. read it again, and again, and again. somebody, somewhere, always has it worse than you. there is one person on this planet that has it the worst of all, and that person is NOT the only person allowed to be unhappy with their lot. if things are bad for you, they are bad for you. period.

biwomensupport

This goes for trauma as well. A lot of times survivors get trapped in a cycle of minimizing/diminishing their trauma because “other people have it worse” - but there is no hierarchy of trauma. There is no ranking system for which traumas are “better” or “worse.” Your trauma is valid. Period.

gothiccharmschool

IMPORTANT TRUTHS.

lilbittydragon-deactivated20241

As a therapist, lemme just say: almost every trauma survivor I’ve ever had has at some point said “But I didn’t have it as bad as some people” and then talked about how other types of trauma are worse. Even my most-traumatized, most-abused, most psychologically-injured clients say this.

The ones who were cheated on, abandoned, and neglected say this. The ones who were in dangerous accidents/disasters say this. The ones who were horrifyingly sexually abused say this. The ones who were brutally beaten say this. The ones who were psychologically tortured for decades say this. What does that tell you? That one of the typical side-effects of trauma is to make you believe that you are unworthy of care.

Don’t buy into it, because it’s nonsense. It doesn’t matter if someone else had it “worse.” Every person who experiences a trauma deserves to get the attention and care they need to heal from it.

meeresfem

“one of the typical side-effects of trauma is to make you believe that you are unworthy of care.”

SO true.

heteroglossia

Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.

Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

(via goalsandpriorities)

thehungwizard

We call ships ‘she.’ We call our war machines ‘women.’ We compare women to black widows and vipers. And you’re going to tell me it’s not ‘lady-like’ to scream, to take up space, to fight and demand respect and do whatever the hell I want. You’ve looked at nuclear bombs and been so in awe that you could only name them after women. Don’t try to down-play my power.

polyteleology

I want to frame this and put it next to my computer.

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eponymmouse

A catcall is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The purity myth is entirely about reminding you that you are not yours. The fetishization of female purity in a world where catcalls are an acceptable form of communication telegraphs one thing very clearly: “Women, stop sexualizing yourselves—that’s our job, and you’re taking all the fun out of it.” The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,” and sluttiness is agency and agency is threatening.

“

Female ‘Purity’ is Bullshit

”, by Lindy West (at jezebel.com)

THIS

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